Goal of Life (GOL) is a flagship programme of the Kutumb Foundation that focuses on building essential life skills among disadvantaged children across Delhi. Launched in 2002, the programme uses football as a powerful medium to bring underprivileged youth together—nurturing their talent while fostering unity, shared purpose, and positive relationships.
What began as an inter-NGO football tournament involving 16 organisations soon evolved into a football-cum-cultural festival, graced over the years by distinguished chief guests such as Bhaichung Bhutia, Kapil Dev, and Stephen Constantine. As the programme grew, peer leaders emerged from within the community and began facilitating sessions for other disadvantaged young people.
Today, Goal of Life operates in multiple locations across Delhi. All sessions are led by trained community youth and follow an intensive curriculum that emphasizes leadership, pluralism, gender sensitivity, and physical fitness. The programme’s toolkit represents the culmination of over a decade of best practices in sports-based youth development.
Goal of Life is a sustainable and scalable sports for development initiative, where football serves as an entry point to deeper educational and life-skills engagement. The programme’s overarching objective is to support the holistic physical, emotional, and social development of every child it reaches.
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The Kutumb Foundation is an NGO based in New Delhi. Since its establishment in 2002, the NGO has helped numerous kids to find paths to a better life. Goal of Life, Kutumb's very own football program, has enabled underprivileged children living in urban slums all over the city to come together and play. We, at TOTAL FOOTBALL, speak to the two boy-wonders from Kutumb and their life with the foundation.
Check out this footage of Kutumb at the Delhi Youth League
This is the 'story' of Kutumb's Under-13 football team and their qualification for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014! This video was created with support by our supporter, Panagiotis Karamanos.
This is the story of Kutumb’s Under-13 football team and their qualification for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014! This video was created with support by our supporter, Panagiotis Karamanos.
The Kutumb Foundation's Manjima Chatterjee was featured as a change agent.
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